Texas Riders - Heads up - HB2470 has passed the house.

By txrider06, Posted May 13, 2011

You may not ride a sportbike but this discriminatory bill has passed the house without anyone knowing about it. Contact your state senator if you'd like to voice your opinion against it. More info here:

By txrider06, Posted May 27, 2011

My understanding is the House bill (HB2470) was approved by the House side of the legislature and sent to the Senate side in the form we know it in post #1. You can also access the exact version via the various links pointing to it on the official legislature site.

So the bill cleared the House with ease and moved to the Senate.

For it to progress, there needs to be a corresponding Senate side bill of which there was none. That means the House bill went to the proper Senate Committee for evaluation, discussion etc. Since we had generated enough questions about the discriminatory aspects, selective enforcement capabilities, lack of a system to verify when an "M" endorsement was granted and so forth, the Senate Transportation and Homeland Security Committee had two options. One - Craft a Senate side bill and set it for reading, discussion, witness testimony and vote to see if it passed their side and mate it with the House version, or Two - let it die in the Committee by not creating anything to mate up with the House version.

There was no 'companion' Senate side bill to match up with to even make it out of Committee.